The Ordinance on Religion and Belief has created a favourable legal corridor for ensuring people’s right to religious freedom.
PhamDung, Head of the Government’s Committee for Religious Affairs wasspeaking at a conference to review the implementation of the Ordinanceover the past eight years in Ho Chi Minh City on May 20.
TheOrdinance on Religion and Belief took effect on November 15, 2004,marking a milestone in the process of perfecting a system of legaldocuments to regulate religious and belief activities in the country.
Dung said the Ordinance has delighted dignitaries and religiousfollowers, encouraging them to join the national unity bloc as well asnational movements to promote socio-economic development.
Inreviewing the enforcement of the document, any revisions and supplementsto the Ordinance can be submitted to competent State agencies, whichcan be followed by the building of a law on region and belief tosafeguard the right to religious and belief freedom of individuals andorganisations to suit the country’s socio-economic development, he said.
Apart from its practicality, the document has,however, revealed limitations in the domains where it yet covers, saidrepresentatives of religious dignitaries at the conference.
They pointed to a number of concepts relating to religious activitiesand State management over religious activities, and the absence ofregulations on State management over religious schools after they areestablished.
The registration and recognition of areligious organisation also faces difficulties in the absence of a legalfoundation to clarify religions, beliefs, and superstition, therepresentatives said.-VNA
PhamDung, Head of the Government’s Committee for Religious Affairs wasspeaking at a conference to review the implementation of the Ordinanceover the past eight years in Ho Chi Minh City on May 20.
TheOrdinance on Religion and Belief took effect on November 15, 2004,marking a milestone in the process of perfecting a system of legaldocuments to regulate religious and belief activities in the country.
Dung said the Ordinance has delighted dignitaries and religiousfollowers, encouraging them to join the national unity bloc as well asnational movements to promote socio-economic development.
Inreviewing the enforcement of the document, any revisions and supplementsto the Ordinance can be submitted to competent State agencies, whichcan be followed by the building of a law on region and belief tosafeguard the right to religious and belief freedom of individuals andorganisations to suit the country’s socio-economic development, he said.
Apart from its practicality, the document has,however, revealed limitations in the domains where it yet covers, saidrepresentatives of religious dignitaries at the conference.
They pointed to a number of concepts relating to religious activitiesand State management over religious activities, and the absence ofregulations on State management over religious schools after they areestablished.
The registration and recognition of areligious organisation also faces difficulties in the absence of a legalfoundation to clarify religions, beliefs, and superstition, therepresentatives said.-VNA
